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I've spent a lot of time in Switzerland over the last ten years or so.
Sure, it can be super expensive for some things. If you cook all of your own food and buy local produce you can easily feed two people for 100 CHF a week but you have to really plan to achieve that.
If you ignore "international quality" housing in the financial districts, decent housing is cheaper to rent or buy than most of the UK. Tenants have strong rights, even down to earning interest on tenancy deposits and rent increases for the duration of your tenancy which can be up to ten years long.
I'm very fond of Switzerland and could well emigrate there one day but that is because it fits my particular circumstances and love of the mountains. I'd hate to suggest we model the UK on it. It can be a strange place for all of its strengths and positive aspects.
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Yeah one of my mates recently emigrated to Switzerland (for work, not a love of their independence). Apparently, he barely ate on his first day as the (subsidised) work canteen was so expensive he didn't have enough cash on him to eat a decent meal. He told me stories of French employees smuggling meat and cheese across the border as supermarket prices are insane. Certainly no utopia.